Allhallowsday
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JOE SAMPLE Ashes To Ashes
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21 hours ago, Herman Bricks said:
While watching LOOKING FOR MR GOODBAR (1977) the other night, I noticed that in the studio-shot street sequences, the curbs of the sidewalks were scattered with wadded-up pages of newspaper and no other garbage. Not likely in reality, most street trash one sees in real life is cig butts, fast food wrapping, coffee cup lids, plastic straws, paper or plastic bags..
Maybe not in 1977... the message of trash in the street sure must've been communicated.
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ARTHUR LYMAN Taboo
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1 hour ago, Det Jim McLeod said:
The best Kinks album so far
It might be THE KINKS first great album. Nice review.
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2 hours ago, Hibi said:
Hard to believe.
Interestingly, I believe the victim of the real crime was a teacher for deaf children. Though the actual crime occurred in NYC, the film is set in Chicago.
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19 hours ago, Hibi said:
Who reads a book in a bar??? That scene seemed so phony to me........
I read that the real-life victim the story was based upon read books... in bars...!
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It's just as powerful as I remembered. And depressing.
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LOOKING FOR MR. GOODBAR (1977) ON TCM RIGHT NOW 12 am
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9 hours ago, Det Jim McLeod said:
at times I like it a bit more
Me too.
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GARY NUMAN Telekon
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53 minutes ago, Sepiatone said:
I wouldn't count TV "specials" as movies as most were only 1/2 to an hour long at best.
Sepiatone
That's what I get for agreeing with you!
And THE HOMECOMING is two hours starring PATRICIA NEAL which I consider a "movie" even if it was made for TV.
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Think Tabonga got wood?
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Back from the Grave, Part 2
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Back from the Grave, Vol. 1
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5 hours ago, TomJH said:
I watched that film again just this week. Lord knows how many times I've seen it but I read the Davis Grubb novel when I was a kid because of the film so my viewings started many decades ago. Every now and then it is necessary for me to go back and re-visit Laughton's dark fairy tale. It's still a unique film in so many ways, challenging to classify. The noir crowd claims it, of course, and I can see their point. But how many noirs have a Mother Goose figure in them, along with the Big Bad Wolf? A great film, even if I find the final third of it frustrating. And Mitchum, what a performance! But there isn't enough to be said for Stanley Cortez's photography or the music of Walter Schumann, as well. Somewhere I heard Mitchum call Charles Laughton the greatest director he ever had.
Since I remember thrilling to THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER in the 1960s in one of its many broadcasts, I was under 10, the count must be off. I own it on VHS and now DVD and usually end up with it on if it's being broadcast... Perhaps I've seen it 40 or 50 times...? I also think of it as a very special American film. Not at all typical, with a strange homage-full cinematic directness, a noir skewering, and biblical homily cozy warm tender ending. The film is a parable in multiple ways.
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TELEVISION Marquee Moon
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NAT KING COLE Love Is The Thing
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DUKE ELLINGTON Mood Indigo
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On 5/7/2021 at 11:57 AM, Sepiatone said:
I'd say Christmas movies do indeed count
Indeed, looking at certain "classic" TV specials, like RUDOLPH THE RED NOSED REINDEER or MERRY CHRISTMAS CHARLIE BROWN or THE HOMECOMING might count into the 40s or 50s... !
NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD I must have seen 30 times...
THE WIZARD OF OZ (just looked at it - again) must be 30 or 40 times...
THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER also just watched again - must be at least 20 times...
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DREAD ZEPPELIN Un-Led-Ed
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Favourite Guilty Pleasure Films
in Your Favorites
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FASTER, PUSSYCAT! KILL! KILL! (1965)
Trashy, implausible, bad taste, bad acting... one of my favorites!